Friday, May 11, 2007
Brazil, Ethanol & the New Great Game
Brazil, Ethanol & the New Great Game
April 13, 2007
With Chinese, Japanese, Indian, American, and European delegations crisscrossing Brazil to size up the country’s potential as a supplier of strategic materials, specifically ethanol, it is hard not to draw an analogy with the fight for hegemony that took place in Asia between Tsarist Russia and the British Empire, in the nineteenth & early twentieth centuries, says this interesting piece.
Over the last month, France’s Louis Dreyfus bought all the sugar and ethanol refineries belonging to the Tavares de Melo Group, becoming the second-largest producer of ethanol in Brazil....
So what's in store for Brazil and its ethanol? Read this post @ Etha Blog for more inputs
April 13, 2007
With Chinese, Japanese, Indian, American, and European delegations crisscrossing Brazil to size up the country’s potential as a supplier of strategic materials, specifically ethanol, it is hard not to draw an analogy with the fight for hegemony that took place in Asia between Tsarist Russia and the British Empire, in the nineteenth & early twentieth centuries, says this interesting piece.
Over the last month, France’s Louis Dreyfus bought all the sugar and ethanol refineries belonging to the Tavares de Melo Group, becoming the second-largest producer of ethanol in Brazil....
So what's in store for Brazil and its ethanol? Read this post @ Etha Blog for more inputs
Labels: brazil, ethanol, politics
Thursday, March 29, 2007
Burdening Brazil With Ethanol, Biofuels
Burdening Brazil With Biofuels
Lúcia Ortiz and David Waskow, March 19, 2007
The prospects of a massive boom in ethanol production to meet demand in the United States is not entirely pleasant. If the U.S. moves to meet a substantial proportion of its fuel needs from biofuels the pressure to import ethanol and other biofuels will mount rapidly, reaching quantities far beyond what Brazil currently produces. Providing biofuels to meet just 10 percent of current U.S. gasoline consumption would require multiplying Brazil’s already sizeable ethanol production many times over. Expanding Brazil’s biofuel industry on such a large scale will create serious environmental and social problems, says this interesting news article.
Read the full article from here @ Tom Paine
Lúcia Ortiz and David Waskow, March 19, 2007
The prospects of a massive boom in ethanol production to meet demand in the United States is not entirely pleasant. If the U.S. moves to meet a substantial proportion of its fuel needs from biofuels the pressure to import ethanol and other biofuels will mount rapidly, reaching quantities far beyond what Brazil currently produces. Providing biofuels to meet just 10 percent of current U.S. gasoline consumption would require multiplying Brazil’s already sizeable ethanol production many times over. Expanding Brazil’s biofuel industry on such a large scale will create serious environmental and social problems, says this interesting news article.
Read the full article from here @ Tom Paine
Labels: brazil, environment, ethanol, problems, trends
Ethanol agreement could have unintended consequences
Ethanol agreement could have unintended consequences
By Lillian Rose
Recently in the Brazilian city of Sao Paolo, a new partnership was agreed upon by President George W. Bush of the United States and President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva of Brazil. The partnership has special focus on cooperations in biofuels.
But like most trade agreements, there are certain dangers ahead. This alliance will have an environmental as well as a social impact. A Brazilian engineer, Expedito Parente, was quoted as saying in a Brazilian newspaper, “We have 80 million hectares in the Amazon that are going to be converted into the Saudi Arabia of biodiesel.”
Read the full news & analysis report from here @ The News & Tribune
By Lillian Rose
Recently in the Brazilian city of Sao Paolo, a new partnership was agreed upon by President George W. Bush of the United States and President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva of Brazil. The partnership has special focus on cooperations in biofuels.
But like most trade agreements, there are certain dangers ahead. This alliance will have an environmental as well as a social impact. A Brazilian engineer, Expedito Parente, was quoted as saying in a Brazilian newspaper, “We have 80 million hectares in the Amazon that are going to be converted into the Saudi Arabia of biodiesel.”
Read the full news & analysis report from here @ The News & Tribune
Labels: brazil, environment, ethanol, problems, society, south-america, usa
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Monday, March 26, 2007
Brazil Soy Industry Prepares For Biodiesel War With Argentina
Brazil Soy Industry Prepares For Biodiesel War With Argentina
SAO PAULO and BUENOS AIRES (Dow Jones)--Brazil's major soyoil producers are preparing for a fight against Argentina over the biodiesel market, hoping Brasilia can convince Buenos Aires that Argentine tax policies are bad for Brazil's biodiesel program.
Brazil soy oil is the number one ingredient used in making biodiesel. Soy oil companies think Argentina's cheaper costs (Argentina has lots of tax incentives for biofuels) will cut them out of the market, especially the export markets.
Read the full report here @ Cattle Network
SAO PAULO and BUENOS AIRES (Dow Jones)--Brazil's major soyoil producers are preparing for a fight against Argentina over the biodiesel market, hoping Brasilia can convince Buenos Aires that Argentine tax policies are bad for Brazil's biodiesel program.
Brazil soy oil is the number one ingredient used in making biodiesel. Soy oil companies think Argentina's cheaper costs (Argentina has lots of tax incentives for biofuels) will cut them out of the market, especially the export markets.
Read the full report here @ Cattle Network
Labels: argentina, biodiesel, brazil, incentives, south-america, soy
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Ethanol, energy and profits
Ethanol, energy and profits
March 24, 2007, Author: David Kennell
Brazil leads the world with “hundreds of miles” of sugarcane plantations, much of it derived by decimation of vast areas of the large Amazon rainforest basin, critical for life on the planet. Eight of 10 new Brazilian cars are fueled by ethanol. Brazilian media billed Bush’s meeting with President Lula da Silva as a bid to create a new “OPEC of ethanol.”
However, analysts point to a major problem for the Brazil-U.S. relationship: a 54 cent U.S. tariff per gallon on Brazilian ethanol. Since corn is the major U.S. plant source for ethanol, the tariff is to protect the U.S. agrichemical industry (free trade indeed).
Read more on this interesting viewpoint from this report @ People's Weekly World
March 24, 2007, Author: David Kennell
Brazil leads the world with “hundreds of miles” of sugarcane plantations, much of it derived by decimation of vast areas of the large Amazon rainforest basin, critical for life on the planet. Eight of 10 new Brazilian cars are fueled by ethanol. Brazilian media billed Bush’s meeting with President Lula da Silva as a bid to create a new “OPEC of ethanol.”
However, analysts point to a major problem for the Brazil-U.S. relationship: a 54 cent U.S. tariff per gallon on Brazilian ethanol. Since corn is the major U.S. plant source for ethanol, the tariff is to protect the U.S. agrichemical industry (free trade indeed).
Read more on this interesting viewpoint from this report @ People's Weekly World
Labels: brazil, economics, environment, ethanol, sustainability
Saturday, March 10, 2007
Bush, Lula Sign Biofuels Agreement between USA & Brazil
March 9, 2007 - Brazil and the United States signed a strategic agreement in the promotion of production of ethanol fuel. Brazil is one of the largest producers of ethanol for fuel purposes.
George Bush is currently on a tour of the Latin American countries
George Bush is currently on a tour of the Latin American countries
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